Kenny Loggins

I took, one look, in your eyes tonight
And I saw, it all there in a different light
Just when I thought I was out of the rain
Suddenly I'm in a hurricane
And all around me voices in the wind

Say again, what I know I know
It's time, it's time, to learn about letting go
Why does it feel like I just exist
Stuck out here on the precipice?

They say the future's out of our hands
So why is it making demands?

If I have to make up my mind
Maybe now is the time to decide
Every minute makes it harder on me
Why must it be now or never?

I knew a man, I held his hand
When I was just a child
He showed me his dreams
I watched him let 'em die

If I could stand again by his side
I'd tell him that love is why we're alive
That's what I tell the world I believe
So why can't I listen to me?

If I have to make up my mind
Maybe now is the time to decide
Every minute makes it harder on me
Why must it be now or never?

Welcome to sunrise in paradise
The light of the dawn, is burning my eyes
And that's just where I want it to be

If I have to make up my mind
Maybe now is the time to decide
Every minute makes it harder on me
Why must it be now or never?

If I finally get to make up my mind
Girl then now is the time to decide
Somebody tell me why I do this to me
Why must it be now or never?

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Kenny Loggins has enjoyed more than three decades of success in the music business, as a songwriter and performer, mostly in a soft rock vein. He was born Kenneth Clarke Loggins in Everett, WA in early 1948, and the family later moved to Detroit, and finally to Alhambra, CA when he was in his teens. He initially turned to music as a way of compensating for his extreme shyness, and found that he was, indeed, a talented guitarist and had a voice. For a time in the late ‘60s he was based in Pasadena, studying at Pasadena City College. At the end of the decade, Loggins passed through the lineup of a band called Gator Creek, who were good enough to get signed to Mercury Records. The group recorded one self-titled album, which was issued in 1970 and included an early version of “Danny’s Song,” a track that he later recorded again as part of Loggins & Messina. He also spent time with a short-lived group called Second Helping, and was a member of the stage incarnation of the Electric Prunes during a later phase of that group’s history.

Loggins was proficient on the guitar and piano, but it was his songwriting that allowed him to make his first lasting impression on the music industry. He took a job as a staff writer for Wingate Music, for $100.00 a week, and later that year four of his songs ended up on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy. This event was particularly fortuitous, as that album was the first release by the newly reconstituted version of the group, and included what proved to be their biggest hit, “Mr. Bojangles.” The presence of the latter helped make Uncle Charlie one of the group’s biggest selling long-players; and the exposure generated a second hit in the form of Loggins’ own “House at Pooh Corner.”

The success of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s recordings brought Loggins to the attention of former Poco member Jim Messina, who was working as a staff producer at CBS. It was Messina’s intention to produce Loggins' debut album, but he also ended up playing and singing on the record, and it worked out so well that the two ended up in a duo. Loggins & Messina were among the most popular folk-based soft rock acts of the first half of the ‘70s and enjoyed a four-year string of successful albums.

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